Saturday

Woke so early, as if I were at the house.  Had a delivery breakfast, but with enough food for later if I want more.

Feels strange hanging out naked without a cage on my cock, look at that thing.  I wish it were bigger, LOL.  I think I'll switch back to the custom metal cage for a while, that shouldn't rub the chafed glans in the same way as the Leopard was.

I don't think I'm in danger of having an orgasm while I'm free, I wasn't in the midst of a super horny wave when this happened.  Those waves arise and fall when you get this far into chastity -- 41 days.  The body cannot sustain super horniness forever, is my experience.

I ordered a couple of new toys for the condo last night, my budget has been good, I had some extra to spare.

Watching more Outlander, 3rd season now.  I have no idea why last night I suddenly wanted to rewatch The Terminator and then T2, no idea, spontaneity.  But if you want to travel back to the 1980s for a while, they're your ticket.

Reading an introductory book on virology, heh.  Why do viruses even exist?!  Biology is complicated.  We didn't even know viruses existed until the late 19th Century, and didn't see them until 1931.  We only began to understand their structures in the 1950s.

I didn't become a scientist because I was too clumsy in the lab -- poor dexterity -- and I didn't remain a statistician because it felt too dry crunching numbers all day.  Yet, I became a corporate tax attorney, talk about dry.  Well, tax issues can be interesting, at the level where I work, I get all the unanswerable questions from all over the country.  I think mainly I ended up with a job that paid well while remaining within 40 hours/week, because the attorneys where I work belong to a union.  Unions are awesome for those of us who want to have lives outside of our careers.

I would never have survived working at a private law firm for 60 hours per week.  But people do.

I'll have to leave the condo at some point to get alcohol, otherwise it's a toy and TV day.  I remembered too late that I'll be here at the condo for the Steve & Friends game session and didn't bring my iPad along, but Steve said we can play browser-based games instead.  So I won't be spending ALL DAY tomorrow on work stuff, but I really do want to catch up on work stuff as much as possible.

As I expected, a study came out showing the Pfizer vaccine is effective after only one dose, but I'm not seeing the authorities here in the US picking up on that result yet.  We could be vaccinating twice as many people!  Sigh.  Bug is not in charge of the world.

season 3 Outlander is all about the tears so far

If ever I need several good cries I will queue up this season again, damn

so much loss, so many left behind, so far a distance,

reminds me of the end of His Dark Materials,

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My sister warned me that she only liked this show through season 3, that when the focus moved to the next generation it was not as interesting, but at this point I know the characters well enough that all their emotions ring true and through and vibrate my own heart and drive my tears.  I don't know that this show is for everyone, it gets horribly gruesome, but that's why the show grabs me.  Love shredded by brutality, yet love.

mRNA vaccines explained in one minute

The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines use a new technology called "messenger RNA" or mRNA.

They've manufactured these little bits of RNA that look like they've been created by human DNA with a little message attached to each bit that signals to the cell's factory: build this protein, please.

The protein the factory builds looks like the "spikes" on the outside of a COVID virus.  These spikes then "bud" on the surface of your cell, and your immune system sees these spikes and says, "FUCK NO, THAT AIN'T HUMAN" and then builds antibodies to get rid of the spikes.  When you later encounter real COVID viruses, your immune system is already geared up to attack their spikes.

But the cute bit of these new vaccines is how they get the mRNA into your cells.  They wrap the mRNA inside little balls of fat, they call these balls of fat "lipid nanoparticles".  Think of them as spherical globs of butter, as if you've just eaten a butter-slathered bagel, and your bloodstream is full of little globs of butter, and your cells are all going, YUM BUTTER YUM, WE MUST EAT THEM.  So your cells happily engulf these little butterballs, and gleefully digest them, releasing the mRNA which directs their cellular factories to make COVID-like spikes.

It's genius!  I hope the real viruses don't figure out how to make themselves look like spherical globs of butter.

they're right there but they're not here

Both of my Sirs will return my texts as much as I require, and I'm sure they'd answer the phone if I called,

they're right there, but they're not here,

even though one is kind of down the street, and the other is on the West Coast,

I know they'd both be happy to hang out with me right now, they're right there, but they're not here

3rd season Outlander ...

A+

you have to wade through some horrible shit to get here

but ...

A+